Yesteryear

Yesteryear

Author: Caro Claire Burke Listening Length: 13h 46m
Suspense Thriller Read Online

A traditional American woman, a beautiful wife and mother who sells her pioneer lifestyle of raw milk and farm-fresh eggs to her millions of social media followers, suddenly awakens cold, filthy, and terrified in the brutal reality of 1855—where she must unravel whether this living nightmare is an elaborate hoax, a tw...

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I’m officially on house arrest. A humiliating blow to the last remaining ounce of dignity, not to mention mobility, that I had in this horror show of a world.

A fabric rope made of three ragged towels is tied in an infinity loop around my ankles, right above my bandage, making it just barely possible for me to shuffle around the kitchen at a glacial pace.

Even at a creep, it’s hard to keep my balance, even harder to use my walking stick properly, and so I keep nearly falling over or gasping at the pain of my bandage rubbing against the fabric as I follow Mary’s commands: Bring me the potato basket, go get the sharper knife, carry this crock to the fire, sweep up the crumbs from the floor.

I can’t help but notice that she’s intentionally making me do as many trips back and forth to the kitchen as possible.